How Hosting Functions

If you have decided to develop your own site, but are not quite sure about what a web site is and are not familiar with the term "hosting", this article is dedicated to clarifying these notions in plain English.

What exactly is a website?

A web site is a combination of web pages brought together systematically. It has a unique website address, also known as a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). A site may include only one web page and sometimes may even be comprised of as many as 1000 web pages.

What is a web hosting server?

A hosting server permits you to upload your web site onto it. In some instances, there might be even thousands of sites on a single web hosting server. The hosting server basically is a computer with special hardware, which is located in a datacenter facility with special cooling systems, whose mission is to safeguard the smooth operation of the web hosting server and all the web sites located on it.

To sum up, a hosting server will be indeed a launching pad when the time arrives for you to launch your web site. It could be any kind of web site - a corporate website consisting of lots of webpages, or a site, which has only a few webpages and which you have developed just for your comrades and family members.

You've reached a decision about what your site will be, now what?

As soon as you have decided what kind of web site you wish to make, the next move is to discover what sort of web hosting service you must select for your online endeavor. Basically, there are two kinds of hosting services - free website hosting services and paid website hosting services. The charge-free web hosting solution is typically used by individuals that do not possess a business-related web site.

Advantages and disadvantages of the cost-free website hosting solution

You will not obtain plenty of features with a free-of-cost website hosting plan. Features like web traffic, memory and web content space are limited and insufficient for an elaborate web store or a corporate website, or even for a site with plenty of graphics. Furthermore, there are lots of banner adverts inserted on your web site by the web host. These ads occupy plenty of space on your web site and are very frustrating.

Shared web hosting

The professional paid shared web hosting services tend to be more reliable and offer many sophisticated features apart from the high-end hosting server that will host your web site and its files. Still, it is important to find out which features your website needs prior to choosing your web hosting plan. You should not rush and wind up spending money on something that your web site does not require.

Choose your web hosting packages provider

It is not difficult to find a hosting provider. You have to simply conduct an online survey in order to find a web hosting provider that fulfills your site's demands. Before you make your actual choice, go through the specifications of the web hosting packages offered by the web hosting suppliers that have grabbed your interest. We, for example, are among the premier web hosting suppliers on the marketplace nowadays. The extensive array of web hosting solutions and our prices are what makes us an enthralling choice. In spite of that, you must establish what type of web hosting service you need and if the price suits your allowance. Moreover, you must always remember to go through the web hosting company's Terms & Conditions before signing up to make certain that your web site is not abusing them.

Signing up for a website hosting account

Once you have found out what features are best for your site, the next move is to sign up for an account with the web hosting packages provider of your preference. You will be bestowed with all the important tools for handling your files and databases. With us, for instance, you will obtain a hosting Control Panel, which includes domain name, web site, database and e-mailbox account administration areas. You log in the web hosting Control Panel using a unique user name and password, which gives you safe access to the portion of the server where your website will be hosted.

Uploading your site

You can either upload your files through an FTP software program or, as is with the majority of hosting providers, via an online tool that is integrated within the hosting Control Panel. With us, the File Manager is quite easy to use and offers features similar to those observed in Windows Explorer, which makes file manipulation extremely easy. We offer additionally a site building tool and a PHP-driven script installation tool, which you can utilize to build your web site if you possess no programming skills and are taking your very first steps in web design. The web-based website building tool, dubbed SiteStudio, will also save you the time and effort of creating a web site on your personal computer and then uploading it through an FTP program or the File Manager tool.